Upgrade! Berlin’s Summer BBQ @ Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum takes refuge within Christoph Ziegler’s ‘Camp Exodus’. Featuring Drew Hemment (artist, curator, weather forecaster / Manchester), Amanda Steggell (artist / Oslo), Perry Bard (artist / New York) and Elena Veljanovska (curator, Upgrade! Skopje), the Upgrade! Summer BBQ edition is a chance to get together with this year’s Berlin art asylum seekers.
When: Monday 27 July, 19.00 Where: Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum | between Seydelstraße & Beuthstraße Public transportation:U2 Spittelmarkt Everyone is invited to bring snacks and drinks.
Upgrade! Berlin and transmediale presents eXgae from Barcelona:
Multiply and share forth. For the free sharing of knowledge and culture. A workshop night on free culture.
Klubraum Podewil,
Klosterstraße 68, 10479 Berlin
June 4th 2009, 18:00 - 24:00
Free entry
The Internet allows the horizontal exchange of information and culture between everyone. Over the course of the last decades we have reached a level of equality between original and reproduction. Because of this, mediums of production need to adapt themselves to this new type of democracy and not the other way around.
Nowadays, new ways of protecting and promoting creative outcomes emerge and need to be investigated.
The Digital Greenhouse is the transmediale.09 salon for strategic artistic, performative and net-based discourse. Bringing together artists, cultural activists, hackers and a cosmopolitan array of thinkers and makers, the salon seeks to address the cultural 'raison d'etre' beyond the daily headlines of climate change rhetoric. How does digital art and culture maneuver across political and societal boundaries between 'our' North and an emergent, less 'silent' and deep South to create new voices and strong cultural networks? With the irreversible global transformations we face, the Digital Greenhouse becomes a training camp for the cultural revolution essential in creating new tools and methods of agency and dialogue.
